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Rh He walks & stumbles as if he crep, And how high labour'd is every step ! ' Newton and Bacon cry ' Being badly Nurst, He is all Experiments from last to first.'

5, 6 He. . . step] A marginal addition. 6 labour'd] finished EY. 7, 8 Newton. . . first] An addition. 7 cry] EY omit. 8 Experiments] experiment EY.

xcix

On the great encouragement given by English Nobihty & Gentry to Cor- reggio, Rubens, Reynolds, Gains- borough, Catalani, Du Crow, and Dilbury Doodle

As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife For a Sword, or a Cutlass, a dagger, or Knife ; So the taught, savage Englishman, spends his whole Fortune On a smear, or a squall, to destroy Picture or tune, And I call upon Colonel Wardle To give these Rascals a dose of Caudle.

MS. Book, p. 40, title an addition. DGR (' Epig.' 3), WMR (' Epig.' ix) prints under this title c, xcix, ci. EY i. 222. DGR, WMR omit ' Du Crow,' and insert ' Rembrandt ' after ' Rubens ' in title ; EY insert ' The ' before 'English," omit 'and Gentry,' and read ' Catelans ' for 'Catalani.' 2 For . . . Knife] For a button, a Bauble [buckle 2nd rdg. del.], a bead, or a knife MS. Book 15^ rdg. del., DGR, WMR, EY. 3 taught] wise MS. Book 1st rdg. del., EY ; learned ibid. 2nd rdg. del. 4 On] For ibid. 1st rdg. del., EY; to destroy] that is not MS. Book 1st rdg. del., EY. 5, 6 And . . . Caudle] EY print this couplet after c. 5 Wardle] Warble EY. For Col. Wardle see Examiner, 1809 passim.